Students as Wikipedia Authors

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Students as Wikipedia Authors

• NJLA ACRL Conference
• April 28, 2009
• Professor James Lipuma
• Librarian Davida Scharf
• at the
• New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Whats wrong?How would you know?

• Authority
• Accuracy
• Audience
• Objectivity
• Currency
• Coverage
• Quality (do links work)
• http//library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/ev
  aluate.php

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Talk page
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkLillian_Moller_G
ilbreth
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Overview

• Davida IL _at_ NJIT
• Jim Eng352 Tech Communications
• Davida How I got started w/ Wikipedia
• Jim The assignments
• Davida The librarians interventions
• Jim The rubric outcomes
• QA

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IL _at_ NJIT

• HUM101-102 collaboration
• Culture of Assessment
• Faculty relationships

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Eng352 Tech Comm.

• Meeting two goals
• Tech comm and info literacy
• through use of Wikipedia

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How I got started. . .

• Can We Make Peace
• with Wikipedia?
• Editorial by Chris Harris
• School Library Journal.
• June 1, 2007

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The Assignment --To write or revise an article

• The process description
• The proposal
• The oral report
• The memo
• The showcase

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Write or revise the article

• Follow Wikipedia guidelines policies
• Link and reference reputable sources
• Page must stay active until the end of the
  semester

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Instruction Advice from a Librarian

• Intro to Wikipedia editing
• Picking a topic
• Finding sources
• Examples
• http//library.njit.edu/docs/Wikipedia.ppt

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The Oral Report

• WHAT What was done?
• WHO Target Audience
• WHY Reasoning
• HOW Execution Details
• QA
• Performance critique

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Our Wikipedia Rubric

• Substantive content
• Well documented
• Well connected
• Suited to target
• Demonstrates Info literacy
• URL FOR RUBRIC.pdf

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NJIT students work

• BMW Central Building
• Specific Weight
• The Old Salt Route
• Heuristic routing
• Yamaha XS650
• Helike

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Why do this?

• Student engagement !
• Respect for documentation !
• Understanding context !

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Info Resources

• Wikipedia
• School University Projects
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_and_universit
  ies_project

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• Q A